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    "id": 874279,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "justice, the Chief Justice is supreme to the two arms, just like we are supreme on matters legislation and that is what the Constitution says. According to the Constitution, on matters executive, the President together with the rest of the Executive is supreme. On matters judiciary, the judges, magistrates and the Chief Justice are supreme. When you have a situation where the Chief Justice stands in line in a crowd waiting to be recognised, in terms of decorum and manners, that is very bad manners, leave alone the question of judicial decency. I appeal to the Chief Justice that we have been there before. It actually shows that the attack on the Judiciary is intimidating the Chief Justice. If the Chief Justice is intimidated, it means the rest of the magistrates and the judges who have to make rulings can be intimidated. Most of the times, the contest is between ordinary people and the Executive. I know there are senior counsels here. Sen. Wetangula, the distinguished Senator for Bungoma has been in the courts for a long time and I am sure he does not remember a day when an incident like that happened. Chief Justice Maraga should wake up and realise that he is the Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya and the head of an arm of Government which is co-equal."
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